Letters and Correspondence

750+ Leaders to Congress: Extend funding for Home Visiting

Over 750 leading national, state, tribal, and local organizations and elected officials wrote to Congress to urge a funding extension of the bipartisan Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV program). Congress must reauthorize the bipartisan-supported Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV program) at its current annual funding level of $400 million before the end of March 2015.The MIECHV program has is proven to improve outcomes for vulnerable children, pregnant women, families, and taxpayers.